RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins the popular geopolitical podcast The Duran to discuss the latest Russia/Ukraine peace deal, Venezuela, US politics and Congress, and more...
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Ukraine’s Days are Numbered
Like a bad Italian opera, the fat lady is singing from a balcony overlooking a city that is ablaze. Zaporhyzhia, Dneipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, Sumy… The Russian ground forces are attacking in all of these locations, which represents about 1,000 miles of...
The World Financial and Geo-political Framework at a Time of Imminent Disorder
Trump’s attempt to build a “Budapest scenario” (i.e. a Putin-Trump summit grounded on the earlier Alaska “understanding”) was unilaterally cancelled (by the US) amid acrimony. Putin had initiated the 2.5 hr Monday call. It reportedly contained tough talking by Putin...
The Rubio Doctrine: Neocons Are Back!
According to several recent news reports, the two major Trump foreign policy shifts last week are the handiwork of Marco Rubio, the President’s Secretary of State and (acting) National Security Advisor. As with all neocon plans, they will be big on promises and small...
It’s Trump’s War Now – President Flip-Flops (Again); Sanctions Russian Oil
US Now Violating Long-Standing Informal Proxy War Rules
NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is attracting growing attention as it threatens to spiral out of control. There is ample reason for concern. What began as a limited military assistance program to Kyiv from the United States and its European...
‘Mediator’ Trump Approves Intel For Deep Strikes Into Russia
Moldova: The Next Front in the West’s Confrontation With Russia?
Moldova’s September 28, 2025, parliamentary elections are shaping up to be another highly contentious struggle between pro-Russia and anti-Russia factions. Both the European Union and Moscow also are accusing each other of illicit election meddling to put their...
War and Delusion
In his latest post to TRUTH SOCIAL President Donald Trump claims that with more dollars, euros and missiles, Ukraine could still regain all its lost territory. President Trump’s statement is a mixture of sentiment and self-delusion, not strategy. Few wars in modern...
‘Changing Course on Ukraine?’ RPI’s Daniel McAdams with George Galloway
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joined George Galloway's Mother of all Talk Shows today to discuss President Trump's seeming 180 degree turn on Ukraine and to "survey the wreckage of an extraordinary week."
Is Free Speech in Danger under Trump ?
Ron Paul Institute Director Daniel McAdams joins Judge Andrew Napolitano on his "Judging Freedom" program to discuss new threats to the First Amendment in the Trump 2.0 Administration:
Trump’s Ukraine Rant: Crazy Like A Fox…Or Just Crazy?
The Mystery of Trump, Ukraine, and Russia
Hardly anyone in the mainstream press addresses the mystery of how Trump went from what was supposedly a secret agent of the Russians to an ardent opponent of Russia in the Ukraine-Russia war. My hunch is that the commentators in the mainstream press are so excited...
‘Here We Go’: Trump Threatens 100% India/China Tariffs As Russia Drones Violate Polish Airspace
Trump’s Economic Team Pursues the Chimera of Collapsing the Russian Economy
I don’t know US Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Scott Bessent, but I am told by people who worked with him on Wall Street that he is a really smart guy. But based on his most recent claim over the weekend that he believes a new round of sanctions — which includes...
Can Trump re-adjust in the post-Tianjin SCO moment? Was the timing of China ‘throwing down the SCO gauntlet’ entirely fortuitous?
The gloves are off. The SCO Summit was a clear demonstration of the reality of power starkly coalescing, on the one hand, and one of power visibly ebbing, on the other. The amazing military parade was the summit counterpart – it spoke loudly: You want to take us on?...
Von der Leyen Is Lying About Russian GPS Interference
There is reason why the name of the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is often mangled into von der Lying. She is notoriously negligent with facts. Here she is caught outright lying to spread fake anti-Russian propaganda. When I read the...
Why On Earth is the Ukraine War Still Going Strong?
It seems like so little changes in the Ukraine conflict, many commentators and writers just keep repeating themselves a thousand times in the last few years. That is not to say that reputable and trustworthy ones haven't said things that were true, perhaps getting...
There will be no peace in Ukraine until Washington admits to itself it has lost the war
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told NBC’s Kristen Welker of Meet the Press that no meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is currently in the works. The Russian diplomat indicated his government is not interested...
U.S. Naive to Think Russia Would Lay Down Arms While Winning War in Ukraine –Daniel McAdams
President Trump is suggesting the U.S. should change the name of the Department of Defense back to the “Department of War,” as his commerce secretary teases plans for the U.S. government to acquire equity stakes in top defense contractors. Trump may be claiming he’s...
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